Tuesday, April 5, 2016

J. Edgar Hoover’s Recruitment of Nazi War Criminals ~ hehe what did John Lennon say ...there's nazi's in the bathroom just below the stairs (Nobody Told Me) ..ole 'J' as well as the c eye a & nasa liked thum nazi's HUH ???

“… In choosing to take the low moral
ground, Hoover and the FBI betrayed the trust of Americans, living and
dead. And in perpetrating a 50-year conspiracy of silence, the FBI
shamed Americans and made them unwitting hypocrites in the eyes of the
world. …”

The FBI’s shameful recruitment of Nazi war criminals

A trove of recently declassified documents leads to several
inescapable conclusions about the FBI’s role in protecting both proven
and alleged Nazi war criminals in America. First, there can be no doubt
that J. Edgar Hoover collected Nazis and Nazi collaborators like pennies
from heaven. Unlike the military and its highly structured Operation
Paperclip — with its specific targets, systematic falsification of visa
applications, and creation of bogus biographies — Hoover had no
organized program to find, vet, and recruit alleged Nazis and Nazi
collaborators as confidential sources, informants, and unofficial spies
in émigré communities around the country. America’s No. 1 crime buster
was guided only by opportunism and moral indifference.

Each Nazi collaborator that his agents stumbled upon, or learned
about from the CIA, was both a potential spy and a potential
anticommunist leader. Once they were discovered, Hoover sought them out,
used them, and protected them. He had no interest in reporting alleged
Nazi war criminals to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS),
the Justice Department, or the State Department for possible deportation
or extradition. He appeared smug in his simplistic division of
Americans into shadeless categories of bad guys and good guys,
communists and anticommunists.Hoover was careful about the number of former Nazis and Nazi
collaborators he placed on the FBI payroll. If Congress or its
investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, ever insisted
on a tally, he could say with a straight face that there were only a
handful of paid confidential sources and informants. But if one adds the
war criminals he informally cultivated and used, the number ranges well
into the hundreds. Although some of the snapshots may be out of focus,
the big picture is now clear. Hoover and the FBI knew the identities,
addresses, and backgrounds of up to a thousand alleged Nazis and Nazi
collaborators on whom he had files but did not report to INS, Justice,
State, or the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) unit of the Justice
Department.Among the newly revealed Nazi collaborators that Hoover and the FBI
used and protected were John Avdzej, Laszlo Agh, and Vladimir Sokolov.
During the war, Belorussian John Avdzej had been installed as the Nazi’s
puppet mayor of the Niasvizh district in western Belorussia, once part
of Poland. His first mayoral job was to rid his district of all Poles.
As a first step, he gave the Gestapo a list of 120 Polish intelligentsia
that included journalists, professors, priests, and former military
officers, according to recently declassified intelligence files. Then he
took part in their execution, as well as in the murder of thousands of
Jews under his political jurisdiction.The Polish Home Army condemned him to death in absentia. The United
States was responsible for bringing Avdzej to America. Hoover snapped
him up and protected him until 1984, when OSI charged him with visa
fraud. Facing trial and possible extradition for war crimes, Avdzej
voluntarily left the United States for West Germany, where he died a
free man in 1998.Laszlo Agh was a wartime member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross, an
anti- Semitic group of fascists responsible for the murder of 10,000 to
15,000 Hungarian Jews and the deportation to Auschwitz of another
80,000. According to 12 eyewitnesses, Agh had personally rounded up,
imprisoned, tortured, and killed hundreds of Hungarian Jews. The torture
included forced calisthenics to the point of unconsciousness, burial in
the ground up to the neck until dead, and orders to jump on ground
studded with partially buried bayonets.Agh intrigued Hoover. A bitterly anticommunist leader had fallen into
his lap and Hoover quickly recruited him as an unofficial informant.
When the INS began to investigate Agh, the FBI refused to cooperate. As a
result, Agh was never tried for visa fraud. Like Avdzej, he died a free
man.Russian Vladimir Sokolov (aka Vladimir Samarin) was a senior editor and writer for Rech
(Speech), a German-controlled, anti-Semitic Russian newspaper. He
entered the United States in July 1951. Sokolov penned articles calling
for the extermination of Russian Jews as enemies of the people. Jews
advised Stalin, he wrote, started the German-Soviet war, and controlled
the White House. Only Germany and its allies had the wisdom to
understand the international Jewish conspiracy and the courage to fight
“the Kikes of the world.” After the war, Moscow placed Sokolov on its
most-wanted list, claiming it had concrete proof that he had worked with
the Gestapo as a propagandist and had personally identified Jews for
execution. The FBI, on the other hand, considered Sokolov a “sincere,
outspoken anti-Communist [and] a potential source.”At one point, he even taught Russian language and literature at Yale
University. “How a man with no high academic credentials suddenly
procured such a prestigious position is a mystery,” wrote historian
Norman Goda. “It is clear that the FBI used him as an informant while at
Yale, possibly to report on Russian students.”If Sokolov was spying for a U.S. intelligence agency, he was probably
an asset in Redcap, a CIA program to collect information on Soviets
living and studying abroad. The CIA as well as the FBI wanted to know if
a Soviet alien was a KGB mole and, if not, whether he or she could be
flipped. Redcap assets were asked to collect information on selected
targets. Besides a photograph and handwriting sample, Redcap wanted: a
list of non-Soviet contacts; a description of personality, habits, and
hobbies; his or her political vulnerability; and the planned date of
return to the Soviet Union. Of particular interest to Redcap was
information on extramarital affairs that could be used for blackmail.OSI filed charges against Sokolov for visa fraud and won its case. A
federal court stripped him of his U.S. citizenship. To avoid deportation
to the Soviet Union, where he would face a public trial and certain
execution, Sokolov fled to Canada. He died a free man in 1992.However shocking and reprehensible, Hoover’s use of alleged Nazis and
Nazi collaborators is just a small part of the FBI story. To focus only
on that dimension diverts attention away from a more important issue.
In choosing to take the low moral ground, Hoover and the FBI betrayed
the trust of Americans, living and dead. And in perpetrating a 50-year
conspiracy of silence, the FBI shamed Americans and made them unwitting
hypocrites in the eyes of the world. Most Americans find morally
repugnant — if not criminal — the behavior of European citizens who
cheered or merely stood by in silence while Nazis and Nazi collaborators
dragged away their neighbors, looted their homes, shot them in the
forest, or crammed them into boxcars heading east. How then must
Americans judge the cadre of unelected, powerful men who welcomed some
of those same murderers to America and helped them escape punishment in
the name of national security?